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Is there some trick to getting HDR to actually work? I set it to "On" but the image is no different than when its "Off".
Is there some trick to getting HDR to actually work? I set it to "On" but the image is no different than when its "Off".
On scenes that don't need it, you'll likely see no effect. I leave it on [Auto] for my 5s and it very rarely kicks in these days.
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On scenes that don't need it, you'll likely see no effect. I leave it on [Auto] for my 5s and it very rarely kicks in these days.
What is an example of a scene that would cause it to kick in?
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Isn't that a five year old phone? I don't use one now but I think they might be a bit better now, at least I've heard good things about Moto X.
... and herein lies the problem. I know what I'm getting when I buy an iPhone. Navigating Android smartphones is a minefield.
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What is the value of permitting it if it's unnecessary?
Surely it hasn't escaped your notice that it's rather par for the course for Android to give users the ability to do things they way they want, whether necessary or not. Android doesn't presume to dictate acceptable feature sets for applications; as a result, sometimes apps will do things that the user did not expect or want (which may still in fact be a valid feature of the app, or may just be a bug), and then it pr…
Android requires the user to do more work because it manages less of the experience itself and offers needless choices.
The reason so many people like Android is because it is cheap, widely available, and can be tailored to the carriers wishes. No serious commentator believes that it's because the majority of people want to manage power consumption manually.
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Oh that reminds me of a couple more. Tons of lag and crashes in the iTunes Store app, and tons of lag in Podcasts, along with chunks of the episodes lists showing up white when I knew there were episodes that should be there. I also had an issue where around half of my music got corrupted during a sync. It acted like everything was fine, then as soon as I tried to play a broken song it would just skip it. Which was p…
For what it's worth, I've had horrible performance in the iTunes App Store since my first day with my first iPhone. And the switch to the new store 'style', heavy on pop-ups instead of directing to distinct pages, has been worse than before. I don't think I've ever had an acceptably performant session in the App Store, at any time of day, on any device, from any network. Even direct links to app pages from other web…
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What? I thought that only applied if you wanted google services on the device. Android itself is FOSS.
Nope. If you want to make an Android device, you must sign up for Google's service. You are free to fork AOSP for your own projects which must not be called Android, but that is the extent of the 'openness'.
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... and herein lies the problem. I know what I'm getting when I buy an iPhone. Navigating Android smartphones is a minefield.
Are you sure you know it's a problem? You haven't bought anything but an iPhone for five years...
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Biggest one that I've seen is apps regularly acting like I lost my internet connection. Hasn't been fixable without killing and relaunching them. I forget exactly which, but I think I've seen it in Apple apps too. Mail maybe?
Oh, I've had this one too (on an iPhone 4.) As far as I can tell, it's caused by switching cell towers on 3G/4G; you suddenly get apparently-great signal strength, but no service whatsoever. I've found that entering and leaving Airplane mode fixes things, presumably because it causes the phone to notice which cell it's actually connected to now. In order for this to be effective in the app you have open , though, you…
Dropping internet connection does occur on WiFi and is not fixed in the iOS 7.1 update.